Rafael Puyol is President of the Board of Governors of IE University and Director of the Observatory of Demography and Generational Diversity IE Business School. Furthermore, Rafael is a senior lecturer and Honorary Rector at Complutense University of Madrid.

Prior to joining IE he served as Rector of Madrid’s Complutense University (1995 – 2003), where he also taught Demography in the School of Geography and History. He has served as President (and continues to be a member) of the Population Group in the Association of Spanish Geographers (AGE), and as Vice-President of the Real Sociedad Geográfica, and is a Member of the Board of the Spanish Chapter of the Club of Rome, and President of the Spanish Seniors Association.

He was Vice-President of the Conferencia de Rectores de Universidades Españolas (CRUE).

He also sits on the Editorial Board of Gaceta de los Negocios and Dinero magazine and the Editorial Board of Nueva Revista de Política, Cultura y Arte.

He holds the Grand Cross of Aeronautical Merit, the Grand Cross of Naval Merit and the Grand Cross of Alfonso X El Sabio to Academic Merits.

He was awarded the Commemorative Medal of UNICEF’s 50th anniversary, and is an honorary member of UNICEF’s Spanish Committee.

A specialist in demographics, he has authored numerous publications and papers in his field. Overall, he has published 18 books and over 200 articles.

Experience

–present

Director of the Observatory of Demography and Generational Diversity, IE Business School